Democrats 66

Democrats 66 (D66) is a social liberal political party in the Netherlands that was founded on 14 October 1966. D66 was founded by a group of politically unaligned young intellectuals led by Hans van Mierlo, and its main goal was to democratize the Dutch political system. The party held left-wing social views and center-right economic views, supporting an American-style presidential system instead of a constitutional monarchy. The D66 party supported a mixed economy, tax cuts for the lower and middle classes, increased government spending on education and innovation, investment in sustainable energy, the legalization of euthanasia, same-sex marriage, and prostitution, the abolition of the Senate, the direct election of prime ministers and mayors, and pro-Europeanism. The party was in government from 1973 to 1977, from 1981 to 1982, from 1994 to 2002, from 2003 to 2006, and from 2017.